Annotated 27-7
Maybe both those doses of sleeping-draught were for Frigg? I feel like it’d take a lot to put her down even when she wanted to go down, whereas Gravedust can probably nod off whenever he wants (one of the few superpowers that old age gives you).
Phil and I struggled some with “God’s” dialogue in the later scenes. It was supposed to be consistent with Courage Wolf, but Courage Wolf himself was not always internally consistent: he was a meme, and a popular meme is constructed by dozens of different writers, all of whom have different ideas about what constitutes “extreme courage.” And sometimes we’d season a bit of Insanity Wolf in there too, the even more extreme version. So if “God” himself seems a little inconsistent in his advice to Frigg, that’s part of why. He’s training her for defiance, though, so it maybe makes sense he’d pull her this way and that.
Should I tag Best, E-Merl, and Scipio here because of the fusion in panel 1? Eh, Frigg’s version of them is sufficiently warped that it’s only about 20% of each of them.
I never recognized Frigg’s God as being from a meme, and even now, that meme barely jogs anything in my memory. But what the hell, I’m old. (Not Gravedust old — falling asleep is not one of my superpowers.)
Insanity Wolf (I think that’s the name) wasn’t exactly a mainstream meme, as I recall.
Frigg’s assessment – “god of completely useless assholes” – is perhaps more prescient than she knows. Especially considering the places and people I used to see his inspiration circulated by.
So, props to the team for that reference.
Most of those just make me roll my eyes or scratch my head, but “Get hit by lightning… hit it back!” is actually a pretty clever bit of wordplay.
I can’t help but hear “If God gives you lemons, get a new God!” in the POWERTHIRST voice.
Tag B-Mespio.
Gotta wonder what the other 40% is…
Frigg projecting her own expectations and interpretations of their (in two of three cases) maddening and inexplicable failure to be sexually interested in her.
Tag Sci-Merst.
“Tag”? Like, “You’re it!”? Like #hashtag?
Check the annotation.
‘It’s inconsistent because it’s meant to be.’ Um, yeah sure.
I read it more as: ” it’s inconsistent because the thing we tried to base it on is inconsistent”
Yeah, and we did our best to make it consistent without realizing going in how challenging that would be.
Things that kind of alarm me: When I read I don’t usually get “voices” for different characters, but courage/insanity wolf have one.